How to Find Us

The Wood County Genealogical Society Genealogy Research Center is housed at the Quitman Public Library, 202 E. Goode Street (Hwy 154), Quitman, Texas. The library is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Tuesday through Friday excluding holidays.

Recent Posts

You don’t have to write a book to publish your family history research for future generations, and you don’t have to wait until you have eliminated every brick wall to start publishing.

That’s what one of my favorite bloggers, Denise Barrett Olson, has to say in a recent blog post. You can get all the details spelled out much more spiffily than I can do it by reading her contribution to FamilySearch.org’s Techtips at this link: http://goo.gl/KVjbn. A brief quote got me to thinking:

And, who says your family history has to be a book? Why not a documentary? Or a multimedia scrapbook? Or a blog?

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Calendar of Events

Beginning in February 2013, the monthly Calendar-of-Events will be moved to a monthly blog post. To find the current month, type "Calendar-of-Events" (no quotation marks) in the search box at the top right of this page. To see the entire monthly events, you might need to click on the blog post Title; (example) WCGSTX February 2013 Calendar-of-Events.